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I nf".(lHV API1I 14, 1?0 Tuesday, April 14, 1987 Weber State College Vol. 47 No, 42 Student recalls escaping Nam Dixie Weekes-Jones Contributing writer One and a half million have tied. Most people fled in April of 1975 at the Fall of Saigon. . Yearly, 3,500 people leave Vietnam. In 1981 he was one of them. ''I was so sick of the killing, always killing. I knew I would be drafted to fight in Laos or Cam-' bodia soon," a 25-year-old Vietneme.se Ciang-binh vsaid. , Vietnam was fighting when Giang-binh was born, while growing up and is still fighting today. Neither Giang-binh nor his family knew if they u i c .i : i c i wouiu ever near irorn one auumer again n ne would be shot or die at sea. They decided to take the risk. Giang-ginh's grandparents, parents, and seven brothers and sisters saved 24 karat gold to buy his passage. They buried it on their farm for months in ' .preparation. "If you didn't have gold you didn't get on the boat," he said. But finally on the second attempt "I escaped," Giang-binh said. "Even though the officers shot at us and hit our water tank we got away. There were 28 of us, men women and children." After a few days on the boat without food a U.S. ship "The Robinson" cited the "boatpeople" on the sea. .- "The ship was transporting missiles to Thailand, I think," Giang-binh said. "They promised to take us to the Phillipines." The rope ladders were dropped to the small boat. Then Giang-ginh witnessed a tragedy. "One vnnno mntVipr wnc en wpaL- frnm larV nf fnnH that she could not carry hersell and her 15-month-old baby up the rope fast enough. A sea wave slammed the two boats together and both were crushed in between. Soon after they died," he said. For the next year-and-a-half Giang-binh waited in a Phillipines refugee camp for a family to sponsor him. While in camp he enrolled in an American trade school and acquired the skills of carpentry, plumbing and electrical wiring to be used in the United States. A cousin who had been a South Vietnamese Air Force pilot and had fled from the North Vietnamese in 1975 now lived in the United States. He found the family in California who invited Giang-binh to live with them. Giang-binh was surprized when he arrived. "I was awed by the technology. I was not used to : riding in cars. On my first day of school my American mother gave me a ride in her car and 1 got sick," he said. It has been six years since Giang-binh arrived in the U.S. He hasn't seen his family since he left but -has been able to stay in touch through letters. He Says his family writes that things are not well in Vietnam. His parents write "... even those that fought with the North Vietnamese are disillusioned now. If one speaks out against the Communist Party or its policies one will be jailed or killed." One of Giang-binh's favorite teachers was removed from his position because he would not teach Communist Party principles. Giang-binh's family was brought in and questioned by representatives of the Communist Party a few months after he had escaped. The family refused to answer any questions about their son and (see NAM on page 2) mmmi for preside V" B A ! 3VA m TIGHT KMT competition is being displayed between presidenli.it tandidntc n prediction? (Signpost photo: Darwin hawi Fee philosophy being refined Emilie Bean Sign Off Editor Now that the dust has settled on student fees, student leaders are looking at the effectiveness and practical workings of the new student fee philosophy. There are several areas that have been or are currently being refined. For instance, the Model United Nations group was cut by at least half. The thinking behind this is fewer people particpate in the program. Also, according to Jonathan Wright, ASWSC president, similar type programs do not get full funding from student fees. His example was the Utah Inter-collegate Assembly wherein students must pay at least part of their cost. However, Weber State is the only school in the state to send a Model UN group yearly. This group not only represents Weber but the whole state. Also, like other areas, there is a Model UN class taught and through the traveling menu gives stud ents an opportunity for practical experience. The Model Un received just over $3,000 in previous years. Next year it will receive less than half tha; amount, about $125 per student. Contrasting this reduction in funds is the Melba Lehner Children's School. The school has a capacity of approximately 78 children, however, up to half of those positions may be held for children of faculty and staff. On the average, some 40 students may benefit directly from the school. The school recevies $18,000 in student fees. Somewhere near $400 per student. The children's school also receives money from tuition, the department and grants. Additionally, school serves child and family studies, education and nursing majors. Also, in some majors students are required to have developmental lab experience. It remains to be seen how well the new philosophy works out and what area will have to be smoothed over in years to come. Still, in previous years there has been no philosophy, not even any real guidelines. Determining the amount of student fees allotted an area was left to the discretion of the allocations committee members. Speaker sought Seniors interested in representing the 1987 graduating class as the student commencement speaker should contact ASWSC President Jonathon Wright in UB 241. The text of the speech should be: five minutes in length; appropriate in content; representative of class. Complete text should be submitted by April 20. Finalists will be asked to present the speech to the ASWSC Student on April 27. Inside. Happy Easter (see page 11) Candidates in review (see page 6)

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I nf".(lHV API1I 14, 1?0 Tuesday, April 14, 1987 Weber State College Vol. 47 No, 42 Student recalls escaping Nam Dixie Weekes-Jones Contributing writer One and a half million have tied. Most people fled in April of 1975 at the Fall of Saigon. . Yearly, 3,500 people leave Vietnam. In 1981 he was one of them. ''I was so sick of the killing, always killing. I knew I would be drafted to fight in Laos or Cam-' bodia soon," a 25-year-old Vietneme.se Ciang-binh vsaid. , Vietnam was fighting when Giang-binh was born, while growing up and is still fighting today. Neither Giang-binh nor his family knew if they u i c .i : i c i wouiu ever near irorn one auumer again n ne would be shot or die at sea. They decided to take the risk. Giang-ginh's grandparents, parents, and seven brothers and sisters saved 24 karat gold to buy his passage. They buried it on their farm for months in ' .preparation. "If you didn't have gold you didn't get on the boat," he said. But finally on the second attempt "I escaped," Giang-binh said. "Even though the officers shot at us and hit our water tank we got away. There were 28 of us, men women and children." After a few days on the boat without food a U.S. ship "The Robinson" cited the "boatpeople" on the sea. .- "The ship was transporting missiles to Thailand, I think," Giang-binh said. "They promised to take us to the Phillipines." The rope ladders were dropped to the small boat. Then Giang-ginh witnessed a tragedy. "One vnnno mntVipr wnc en wpaL- frnm larV nf fnnH that she could not carry hersell and her 15-month-old baby up the rope fast enough. A sea wave slammed the two boats together and both were crushed in between. Soon after they died," he said. For the next year-and-a-half Giang-binh waited in a Phillipines refugee camp for a family to sponsor him. While in camp he enrolled in an American trade school and acquired the skills of carpentry, plumbing and electrical wiring to be used in the United States. A cousin who had been a South Vietnamese Air Force pilot and had fled from the North Vietnamese in 1975 now lived in the United States. He found the family in California who invited Giang-binh to live with them. Giang-binh was surprized when he arrived. "I was awed by the technology. I was not used to : riding in cars. On my first day of school my American mother gave me a ride in her car and 1 got sick," he said. It has been six years since Giang-binh arrived in the U.S. He hasn't seen his family since he left but -has been able to stay in touch through letters. He Says his family writes that things are not well in Vietnam. His parents write "... even those that fought with the North Vietnamese are disillusioned now. If one speaks out against the Communist Party or its policies one will be jailed or killed." One of Giang-binh's favorite teachers was removed from his position because he would not teach Communist Party principles. Giang-binh's family was brought in and questioned by representatives of the Communist Party a few months after he had escaped. The family refused to answer any questions about their son and (see NAM on page 2) mmmi for preside V" B A ! 3VA m TIGHT KMT competition is being displayed between presidenli.it tandidntc n prediction? (Signpost photo: Darwin hawi Fee philosophy being refined Emilie Bean Sign Off Editor Now that the dust has settled on student fees, student leaders are looking at the effectiveness and practical workings of the new student fee philosophy. There are several areas that have been or are currently being refined. For instance, the Model United Nations group was cut by at least half. The thinking behind this is fewer people particpate in the program. Also, according to Jonathan Wright, ASWSC president, similar type programs do not get full funding from student fees. His example was the Utah Inter-collegate Assembly wherein students must pay at least part of their cost. However, Weber State is the only school in the state to send a Model UN group yearly. This group not only represents Weber but the whole state. Also, like other areas, there is a Model UN class taught and through the traveling menu gives stud ents an opportunity for practical experience. The Model Un received just over $3,000 in previous years. Next year it will receive less than half tha; amount, about $125 per student. Contrasting this reduction in funds is the Melba Lehner Children's School. The school has a capacity of approximately 78 children, however, up to half of those positions may be held for children of faculty and staff. On the average, some 40 students may benefit directly from the school. The school recevies $18,000 in student fees. Somewhere near $400 per student. The children's school also receives money from tuition, the department and grants. Additionally, school serves child and family studies, education and nursing majors. Also, in some majors students are required to have developmental lab experience. It remains to be seen how well the new philosophy works out and what area will have to be smoothed over in years to come. Still, in previous years there has been no philosophy, not even any real guidelines. Determining the amount of student fees allotted an area was left to the discretion of the allocations committee members. Speaker sought Seniors interested in representing the 1987 graduating class as the student commencement speaker should contact ASWSC President Jonathon Wright in UB 241. The text of the speech should be: five minutes in length; appropriate in content; representative of class. Complete text should be submitted by April 20. Finalists will be asked to present the speech to the ASWSC Student on April 27. Inside. Happy Easter (see page 11) Candidates in review (see page 6)